CA1054666A - Cabinet for containing keys - Google Patents

Cabinet for containing keys

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Publication number
CA1054666A
CA1054666A CA271771A CA271771A CA1054666A CA 1054666 A CA1054666 A CA 1054666A CA 271771 A CA271771 A CA 271771A CA 271771 A CA271771 A CA 271771A CA 1054666 A CA1054666 A CA 1054666A
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Prior art keywords
cabinet
housing
door
openings
leaf
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CA271771A
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French (fr)
Inventor
Norman H. Mcclelland
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ERNO MANUFACTURING Co Ltd
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ERNO MANUFACTURING Co Ltd
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47GHOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G29/00Supports, holders, or containers for household use, not provided for in groups A47G1/00-A47G27/00 or A47G33/00 
    • A47G29/10Key holders; Key boards

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A cabinet is provided for storing keys.
The cabinet has a housing for attachment to a wall and the like and defining a front opening; a door hinged to one side of the housing and moveable between a closed position in which the door covers the opening and an open position in which the opening is encovered to pro-vide access to the housing. Key hangers are attached to the housing and a master chart is provided for plac-ing on the inside of the door and having numbered spaces for entering information about keys to be contained in the cabinet. Cabinet labels are numbered in sequence for attachment to the housing adjacent respective key hangers to facilitate locating the keys in the cabinet in positions corresponding to the numbers on the master chart. Upper and lower brackets are positioned adjacent the hinge and are attached to the housing. Each of the brackets defines one of a pair of aligned openings for removeably receiving a leaf which defines further key hangers to expand the cabinet capacity. A lock is pro-vided and is coupled to the door and housing for retain-ing the door in a closed position.

Description

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This invention relates to a cabin~t for con-taining keys.
In offices, factories, and other places where there are many keys used for different locks it is common to use a key system of some kind. One type of system which is used provides a cabinet for containing spare keys so that if a key is lost or misplaced, a spare key can be obtained from a person in charge of the cabinet. This system gives that person control of many keys by simply having a single key ; 10 which can unlock the cabinet. In a second system, persons in charge of keys are expected to place them in a cabinet - ~?
when they leave their place of work and the keys are then locked in the cabinet at night. This l~tter system ensures that no employee takes keys off the premises and this is often important where the keys provide access to valuables ~; or restricted areas. ~ `
It has been found that there is a demand for a simple cabinet suitable for both systems and which can be bought initially to contain a fixed number of keys and then expanded subsequently. It is an object of the present inven-tion to satisfy this demand. ~-According to the invention, a cabinet is pro-vided for storing keys/ the cabinet comprising: a housing :~ :
for attachment to a wall and the like and defining a front opening; a door hinged to one side of the housing and moveable between a closed position in which the door covers the open-ing and an open position in which the opening is encovered ~;~
to provide access to the housing. Key hangers are attached to the housing and a master chart is provided for placing on ¦
the inside of the door and having numbered spaces for entering ' ''' `"
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information about keys to be contained in the cabinat. Cabinet labels are numbered in sequence for attachment to the housing adjacent respective key hangers to facilitate locating the keys in the cabinet in positions corresponding to the numbers on the master chart. Upper and lower brackets are positioned adjacent the hinge and are attached to the housing. Each of the brackets defines one of a pair of aligned openings for re-moveably receiving a leaf which defines further key hangers to expand the cabinet capacity. A lock is provided and is coupled 10 to the door and housing for retaining the door in a closed pos-ition.
~; The invention will be better understood with reference to the drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is an exploded perspective view of an open cabinet according to a preferred embodiment of the inven-tion and an additional leaf is shown for forming part of the.cabinet when the capacity of the cabinet is to be increased;
Fig. 2 is a sectiona:L side view of the cabinet on line 2-2 of Fig. 1 with the cabinet in a closed position;
and -~ig. 3 is a paxtially exploded perspective view of a key tag to a largar scale than that used in Fig. 1.
Reference is made to Figs. 1 and 2 with parti-cular reference initially to Fig. 1 which illustrates a cabi-net 20 consisting essentially of a housing 22 to which a door 24 is attached by a piano hinge 26. As will be described, the cabine~ can include a releasable leaf 28 if it is required to store more keys than the cabinet can contain without the leaf 28. Also, although not shown, it will be evident that for security reasons the cabinet should be attached to a wall by any suitable means dependent upon the location of the cabinet.

lOS46~i The housing 20 consists essentially of a rear wall 30 having a peripheral side wall formed by respective top and bottom walls 32, 34 and side walls 36, 38. A false ;~ wall 40 is attached in face-to-face relationship with the rear wall 30 and defines rows of key hangers 42 deformed out of the material of the false wall 40 as better seen in Fig. 3. Each row is displaced horizontally with respect to adjacent rows to accommodate keys as indicated in Fig. 1.
Each of the key hangers 42 is numbered by use of adhesive strips 44, ~6, etc. which are attached above the hangers and include numbers corresponding to the number of hangers on the false wall 40. As will be described these num-bers are used to locate keys such as key 48 which is suspended ` by a key tag 50 fxom the first of the key hangers 42.
, The door 24 consists of a front panel 52 sur-rounded by a peripheral flange consisting of a top portion 54, a bottom portion 56 and respective side portions 58, 60 which side portions blend into the front panel 52 to enhance the appearance of the structure and to avoid presenting sharp cor-ners when the cabinet is closed. The peripheral flange is ~ proportioned to fit externally about the wall of the housing ` ~
-; 22 and the side portion 60 is attached to the piano hinge 26 -to locate the door relative to the housing. Also, respective top and bottom door stops 62, 64 are provided for engagement with the front extremities of the top wall 32 and bottom wall 34 to locate the door in a closed position. The door can be retained in this position by use of a lock consisting of a ; latch 66 on the door 24 and a keep 68 on the wall 38 of the housing 22. Although not seen in the drawings the latch 66 -will be operated by a person who is responsible for the keys to be contained in the cabinet 20.

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The door 24 also includes a pair of internal vertical guides 70, 72 welded to a surface of the panel 52 and combining with a bottom stop 74 to contain a mastex chart 76. This chart is numbered and provides separate spaces, one beside each num~er, to enter a description of a key to be associated with that number. These numbers correspond with the numbers in strips 44, 46, etc. and also correspond to numbers used on the key tags 50 as will be described with reference to Fig. 3.
Returning to the housing 22, this structure also includes respective upper and lower brackets 78, 80 which ~ are attached both to the rear wall 30 and to the side wall 36 `, to both reinforce the structure adjacent hinge 26 and to de-fine respective upper openings 82, 84 and respective aligned lower openings 86, 88. As better seen in Fig. 2 the openings 82, 86 are positioned for receiving leaf 28 and the openings 84, 88 are provided to receive a further leaf 90 shown in ghost outline. The spacing of the openings is such that in ~ ' us~ the leaves are spaced from one another and from the false wall 40 such that keys can be suspended on key hangers 42 on both sides of the leaves 28, 90. Also, the openings 84, 88 are positioned nearer to the hinge 26 than the openings 82, 86 so that when leaf 90 is rotated into an open position the front face of leaf 28 is fully exposed without interference by the leaf 90. Similarly, openings 82, 86 are preferably spaced towards the hinge relative to the false wall 40 for the same reason.

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As seen in Fig. l the leaf 28 consists essen-tially of a central panel 92 bordered at its upright edges by rolled portions 94, 96. The portion 94 contains a rod defining respective upper and lower projections 98, lO0 and ~- the portion 96 simply improves the handling characteristics ; of the leaf.
The upper projection 98 is somewhat longer than - the lower projection lO0 so that the leaf can be engaged in the openings 82, 86 by first engaging the projection 98 in the opening 82, then lifting the leaf 28 until the projection -100 can be engaged in the opening 86, and finally allowing the leaf to fall into engagement with the bracket 80 so that the ; leaf is then turnable with respect to the housing 22. The . .
positive engagement of the leaf is enhanced by the use of a -~
coiled compression spring 102 which is placed over the project-ion 98 so that after assembly it is compressed between the end `
of the rolled portion 94 and the underside o the bracket 78.

In the event that the further leaf 90 (Fig. 2) is to be used, . ~ . .
it will be engaged in the openings 84, 88 in a similar fashion.
~, 20 As seen in Figs. l and 2 the leaf 28 defines key hangers 104, 106 located at opposit~ sides of the main panel 92 and formed out of this panel. The hangers are similar ;
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` to the hangers 42 but because the leaf is two-sided it is pos- -~
sible to provide hangers on both sides. The numbering of the hangers is preferably consecutive down one side of the leaf and then continues on over the other side of the leaf. As indicated in Fig. 2 adhesive strips such as the strips 44, 46 are used to number the hangers of the leaf 28. These numbers will of course correspond to those on the master chart 76 in the same way as previously described with reference to hangers 42 on the false wall 40.

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Reference is now made to Fig. 3 to describe the key tag 50. This tag consists of a disc 108 defining a top opening 110 for placing the tag on hangers such as hanger 42 and a lower smaller opening 112 through which a conventional connector 114 is placed for receiving key 48 (Fig. 1). The disc 108 also defines a rectangular depression 116 for re-ceiving an adhesive label 118 such that when the label is in the depression the edges of the label are protected against accidental removal. This label and the labels used on other key tags are numbered consecutively so that when the key is .
attached to the key tag that key is then identified from the master chart 76 tFig. 1) and its rightful position on the hangers is identified by the numbers on the false wall 40. .
Although the numbers on the false wall are not essential ~ `.
because of the direct relationship between the label 118 an~d the master chart 76, the numbering of the hangers 42 make it .
possible to make a visual check to determine whether or not I .
any parti_ular key is available or ~li ssing.

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Claims (8)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A cabinet for storing keys, the cabinet comprising:
a housing for attachment to a wall and the like and defining a front opening;
a door hinged to one side of the housing and moveable between a closed position in which the door covers the opening and an open position in which the opening is uncovered to provide access to the housing;
key hangers attached to the housing;
a master chart to be coupled to the inside of the door and having numbered spaces for entering infor-mation about keys to be contained in the cabinet;
cabinet labels numbered in sequence for attach-ment to the housing adjacent respective key hangers to facil-itate locating the keys in the cabinet in positions corres-ponding to the numbers on the master chart;
upper and lower brackets positioned adjacent said hinge and attached to the housing, each of the brackets defining one of a pair of aligned openings for removeably re-ceiving a leaf to provide further key hangers; and a lock coupled to the door and housing for retaining the door in the closed position.
2. A cabinet for storing keys, the cabinet comprising:
a housing for attachment to a wall and the like and defining a front opening;

a door hinged to one side of the housing and moveable between a closed position in which the door covers the opening and an open position in which the opening is uncovered to provide access to the housing;
key hangers attached to the housing;
a master chart to be coupled to the inside of the door and having numbered spaces for entering infor-mation about keys to be contained in the cabinet;
cabinet labels numbered in sequence for attach-ment to the housing adjacent respective key hangers to facili-tate locating the keys in the cabinet in positions corres-ponding to the numbers on the master chart;
upper and lower brackets positioned adjacent said hinge and attached to the housing, each of the brackets defining one of a pair of aligned openings;
a removeable leaf comprising: a panel and upper and lower aligned projections, the upper projection being longer than the lower projection for engagement in the upper bracket opening so that the lower projection can be engaged in the lower opening and the leaf allowed to fall into engagement with the lower bracket while the upper projection remains in the opening in the upper bracket; and a lock coupled to the door and housing for retain-ing the door in a closed position.
3. A cabinet as claimed in claim 2 and further comprising a compression spring positioned about the upper pro-jection and in compression to bias the leaf downwardly to pre-vent accidental separation of the leaf from the housing.
4. A cabinet as claimed in claims 1, 2 or 3 in which said openings are positioned between the hinge and the key hangers.
5. A cabinet as claimed in claims 1, 2 or 3 in which the brackets define a further pair of openings located such that the first-mentioned pair of openings lie between the further pair of openings and the key hangers.
6. A cabinet as claimed in claims 1, 2 or 3 in which the brackets define a further pair of openings located such that the first-mentioned pair of openings lie between the further pair of openings and the key hangers, and such that the further pair of openings are nearer to the hinge than the first-mentioned pair of openings and such that the first-mentioned pair of openings lie between the further pair of openings and the key hangers.
7. A cabinet as claimed in claims 1 or 2 in which the leaf defines hangers on both sides of the leaf.
8. A cabinet as claimed in claims 1 or 2 in which the door further comprises guide means coupled to the inner surface of the door and adapted to releasably receive the master chart.
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Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5690404A (en) * 1995-11-07 1997-11-25 Keller; William Hidden photograph storage device
US5758936A (en) * 1996-04-05 1998-06-02 Baughan; Lana J. Jewelry security cabinet
US6068357A (en) * 1995-11-07 2000-05-30 Keller; William Hidden photograph storage means
US6422671B1 (en) * 2000-01-06 2002-07-23 Block And Company, Inc. Key cabinet with staggered key panels
EP1278442A1 (en) * 2000-04-26 2003-01-29 Richard Gould A retaining arrangement for key holders

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5690404A (en) * 1995-11-07 1997-11-25 Keller; William Hidden photograph storage device
US6068357A (en) * 1995-11-07 2000-05-30 Keller; William Hidden photograph storage means
US5758936A (en) * 1996-04-05 1998-06-02 Baughan; Lana J. Jewelry security cabinet
US6422671B1 (en) * 2000-01-06 2002-07-23 Block And Company, Inc. Key cabinet with staggered key panels
EP1278442A1 (en) * 2000-04-26 2003-01-29 Richard Gould A retaining arrangement for key holders
EP1278442A4 (en) * 2000-04-26 2006-05-03 Richard Gould A retaining arrangement for key holders

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